Why is it so challenging to get the display right on Windows virtual machines in VMware Fusion on a MacBook Pro?
I upgraded from VMware Fusion 10 to VMware Fusion 11 today, and of course my Windows VM displays are horked up again. I am tired of trial and error and trying to figure out how to get a basic, readable Windows at reasonable adult resolutions. I do not want super high resolution that only young people and fleas can read, and I do not want 640 x 480 either, got it?
I am running the following virtual machines:
* Windows XP (non-internet) for legacy software
* Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit)
* Windows 10 (32- and 64-bit)
(plus Linux, appliances, etc. - I will get to them later...)
I would like to know the following settings that will work with virtual machines in full screen mode on a December 2016, 15-inch MacBook Pro with Radeon Pro 460 and Intel HD Graphics 530. What are your settings for:
VMware Fusion Display:
Accelerate 3D Graphics:
Enabled/Disabled
Battery life
Shared graphics memory
Use full resolution for Retina display:
Enabled/Disabled
Scaled high resolution
Automatically adjust user interface size in the virtual machine - Enabled/Disabled
Virtual Machine Resolution: Single Window, Full Screen
Within Windows, what are your display settings, too?
Why can't VMware document this properly, in an easy to understand form? The knowledge base provides details of each individual setting, but it is presented in a way where only experts can understand how they interact and what really happens when you change them. I like having options and flexibility, but need them presented in a way where I can understand how they affect my displays so I can know how to configure them.
Please help. I am so tired of making this work by trial and error with every upgrade, which probably started when I upgraded from Fusion 1.0 to 2.0. What I want is something like, "For ordinary people doing ordinary things in their ordinary Windows virtual machines on their ordinary MacBook Pro, try these settings: ..."
